EPISODE REVIEW: Iron Man Armored Adventures: “Best Served Cold” (Episode 24)

Curiously, I seem to have missed an episode. According to the official information, there was an episode called “Uncontrollable” involving the Hulk that was supposed to air between this episode, and “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” I have absolutely no memory. I’m not sure if they reversed the order they’re airing in, or if I somehow just completely spaced out and missed it (Entirely possible, I’ve been very sick), but I have no memory of Hulk in Iron Man. If I’ve let you down, I’m sorry and I’ll try to make it up to you in the future, and if the fault isn’t mine, I’ll review it as soon as the episode is broadcast.

If it *has* already run, if anyone could find me a link to an online version of it, I’d be very appreciative (Republibot Appreciation is theoretically exchangeable for goods and services.)

PLAY BY PLAY

Whitney Staind goes goofy at school, hallucinating that her father is various people in the classroom, all telling her how much she sucks. She runs out, goes straight to the Stark Tower, dons her Madam Mask…uhm…mask, I guess, and tries to kill her daddy. Guards subdue her, and pull of the mask, and Obadiah is stunned to realize it’s his daughter. In the Stark Tower medical facility, the doctor determines that Whitney has heavy metal poisoning, an that her brainwaves are all goofy, owing, of course, to the untested esoteric technology inherent in the mysterious mask of the no-longer-mysterious Madame Mask. Yeah.

Obadiah calls Tony, who reluctantly comes with Rhodie and Pepper, and explains that Whitney is dying. Tony recognizes some of these effects from symptoms Living Laser was suffering, and concludes that it’s the result of a particular brand of Inobtanium (or possibly Handwavium) being used in some of Howard Stark’s experiments. Whitney comes to briefly, and tells Tony to run since her daddy is trying to kill him, and blew up Howard’s jet back in the day, and Tony storms out. Obadiah, of course, denies the whole thing - and in fact we’ve seen him go out of his way to avoid killing people in the series heretofore - and both Pepper and Rhodie point out that the old “Staind is Evil, Staind Killed my Dad, Staind wants to Kill Me” thing isn’t really making much sense anymore, particularly since Staind went out of his way a while back to save Tony’s life.

Tony agrees to help, but he needs a pure sample of the Handwavium (Or possibly Inobtanium), which can only be recovered from an abandoned Stark research facility in the arctic. In winter. In a blizzard. Staind says he’ll figure out a way, then goes off and revives Blizzard, another power suit villain from some episodes back that I have only the most fleeting memories of. He puts a bomb on Blizzard, and says he’ll make him a wealthy man if he’ll zip up to the pole and get the pretty pretty rocks. Blizzard agrees, reluctantly, since the alternative is getting blowed up. Tony, meanwhile, heads up in a new suit of Iron Man armor. Of course they meet up at the facility, and it’s Wallace Beery time. Yawn.

Blizzard wins, removes the bomb, and comes back to exact revenge on Staind, but it turns out he’s fighting Whitney/Madame Mask, who’s escaped from the infirmary